Fleeing Domestic Violence, and the Russian Advance
“I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border with Russia. “But this is how it turned out.”
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U.S. Science Has Weathered Attacks Before and Won
U.S. Science and Scientific American Have Weathered Attacks Before and Won Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired and offers lessons for today By Dan Vergano Albert Einstein and other scientists, including Hans Bethe standing behind him, in 1946. Smith…
Pamela Anderson’s life and career in pictures: From polarising ’90s icon to Golden Globe nominee
Pamela Anderson learned early on in her career not to care what people thought of her. She spent decades enduring others speaking on her behalf, sharing a narrative of her life that wasn’t true. Yet, despite this, the Canadian-American actress, model and author has never needed rescuing. She’s not a damsel in distress, but more…
Trump Turns to Untested Tariffs to Reorder Global Trade
President Trump has long wanted to rework world trade. The tariffs set to go into effect next week will carry out that plan.
‘Pretty dark right now’: Major League Rugby reels as two more teams face funding crunch | Rugby union
Major League Rugby has endured a tough week with a merger and a withdrawal reducing the competition to nine teams, but the US men’s professional rugby union competition could yet fall to just seven entrants if two more teams fail to raise new funds, the Guardian learned. The merger of the San Diego Legion and…
The way we train AIs makes them more likely to spout bull
Certain AI training techniques may encourage models to be untruthful Cravetiger/Getty Images Common methods used to train artificial intelligence models seem to increase their tendency to give misleading answers, according to researchers who are aiming to produce “the first systematic analysis of machine bullshit”. It is widely known that large language models (LLMs) have a…
Pfizer and BioNTech lose appeal in London over Moderna COVID vaccine patent
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Friday lost their bid to overturn a ruling that their COVID-19 vaccine infringed one of Moderna’s patents at London’s Court of Appeal. Last year, the High Court ruled that one of Moderna’s patents relating to the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which underpinned its COVID-19 vaccine, was valid and…
Donald Trump says he’s not ‘solely responsible’ for ‘Late Show’ cancellation – National
U.S. President Donald Trump claims he had nothing to do with the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump said “everybody” thinks he was “solely responsible” for the end of the late-night talk show but he said the rumours are “not true!” “Everybody is saying…
Putin Blames Frustration Over Ukraine Talks on ‘Inflated Expectations’
The Russian president didn’t directly respond to President Trump’s ultimatum that Moscow halt its offensive by the end of next week or face financial penalties.